The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29
NEW Y0RK'S HAWKERS.
PECULIAR SOUNDS BY WHICH THEY
ATTRACT ATTENTION.

ATTRACT ATTENTION.
Theatrical Gossip-A Number of New
Theatres Projected-New York Be-
coming the Rival of Paris IN a Musi-
cal Way-A Strong Dramatic Combi-
nation.
traffic of New York has grown
to great proportions Five thousands
peddlers are daily patrolling the
thoroughfares selling all kinds of wares and
doings all kinds of work They pay adollar
a year to the city for the privilege of sell
ling goods on the streets and harasSing late
sleepers and nervous people with their cries.
The first cries in the morning are those of
the newsboys. In Western cities where the
features of bullentin boards has not been
developed the newsboys call out the name of
their papers and announce their most start
ling piece of new. A few moments before
the paper comes out the city editor sends
down to the publication office cry for the
newsboys The man in charge of the base
ment room where hundred or two news
bows are waiting, then calls them up and
gives them the cry. One day the shout in
one of the Western newspapers Offices was:
IAN about the murder of Smith, Peter
Smith had been very wealthy, aristocratlc
man The newsboyS were coached and
shouted the call several times in vociferous
concert while waiting for their papers.
Some of them, as is usually the case, did
not learn the call correctly, and when they
began calling their paper ON the street the
friends of Mr.. Smith were Mortified to hear
them shout: ''All about the murderer, Peter
Smith,
The New York newsboy merely calls the
names of the papers. He gives the names
a peculiar infection, and if the edition is an
extra he shouts 'Hextra, Just outm cry
sure to sell papers, for the public knows that
something extraordinary must have hap
pened to warTent an extra.
Before the newsboy selling morning papers
has subsidized, the people i'll fats and board
ing houses, who are trying to take their final
morning nap, are aroused by the peculiar
whoops that sound like "Y-i-p, Y-o-
h-oog' 1t is the call of the milkmen with
their peculiarly fashioned red wagon. In
Washington the milkmen announce their
coming by ringing great gongs attached to
the dashboards of their wagons, and in
Western cities they ring dinner. bells, but
no New York milkman is allowed to ring a
bell His cry is peculiar and no other ven
dor attempts to initiate it.
When the milkmen have gone a man
like, 'Glass puddingm He happens along
at the hour when the chambermaids are
cleaning the windows and his call means:
''Glass put in!" Following him are men,
one on each side of the street, for they, like
many branches of street traffickers, usually
travel in pairs, yelling in peculiar nasal
tones Rag SON bot-teils!" They are the
rag or bottle buyers. New York has be
come great beer drinking city, and bottled
beer for table use is so extensively used that
these bottle buyers gather great numbers of
bottles. The consumer of bottled beer gets
a rabate by returning the empty bottles to
the beer merchant, but he usually doesn't
care to bother with them and gives the SER
wants the proceeds of their sale The rags
and bottles man is the particular friend of
the domestics
At o'clock in the morning great army
of fruit and vegetable vendors begin to make
the streets anything but melodious. One
shouts ''Pot-eight pot-eight, pot-eight-oos! ~
Anothr yell: Sparrow gressi Thirteen cents
bunchm The former is the vendor of new
potatoes just from Bermuda, and the latter
of asparagus. Some of these vegetable
dealers have wagons loaded with all kinds
of produce-portabl green groceries, in
fact. Every dealer has an ambitions to own
a wagon. The privilege of running wagon
costs him s. year for the first year and
SOC. year thereafter. If he is too poor to
own horse and wagon he gets push-cart,
but the lisence for this vehicle costs him as
much as for the horse and wagon. There
are 5000 lisenced merchandise wagons in
New York, ranging from the little cart con-
tanning an ice cream freezer, from which an
Italian sells cents worth of ice cream on
piece Of brown paper TO newsboy, to the
elaborate green grocery wagon drawn by a
handsome horse. Every day at this season
an Italian wheels a cart to the north end of
The sapadillo is the only fruit that must be
nearly rotten to suit the epicure, who de-
scribes its taste as a combination of apple,
pineapple and banana.
About IL o'clock men drive along the
streets In the tenement districts, screaming
"Go-way" Get near enough to the con-
tents of their wagons and you will find that
they are selling coal The majority of the
licensed wagons in New York are those from
which coal and ice are sold. The yell red
disheesr blends with the coalman's call
Five cents a bunch for five radsheS is the
ruling price The vicinity of the great fac
tories is a good field for the radish vendor
about noon, for the workman esteems the
radish with his luncheon and beer.
At the crowded street corners frequented
by shoppers one hears the call: "Lie-likes!
Just cut overwhelmingly Lilacs
are very popular for table ornamentation
and the vendors make good living by their
sale.
A man with a musical voice perambulates
the street ON the lower west side of the city
singing;
"Any penknives or sissors, or carvers to
gr-i-ndg'
Another dealer, whose voice sound like a
chant at church service, goes through the
aforementioned streets on the east side sing
ing:
'"Tn-warhar TO me-hend! Was-to-hubs,
tin pai-hels, boil-hers and pa-hans!'
The poet of the craft is clam vendor who
sings out:
'Oh, CLAIMS, oh, CLAIMS, fresh clans to day,
They've lately arrived from Rockaway.
They're good for to eat and they're good for 10
fry,
They're good for to make clam potpie!"
The broom peddlers have peculiar cry
which sounds "A-whooh! a-whooI' and no
one would understand the shout "Ap-hem,
teDce a--whater pa--hel, means apples l0c.
a water pail
The Chinese quarter is seldom invaded by
street vendors; the Italian quarter is thick
with them, but they do not cry their wares
The bread women are in the majority. They
crunch on the sidewalk, near the curbs
with great loaves of shiny black bread laid
out ON dig coffee sacks ON the walk 4 reel
Ing pedestrian sometimes steps on their goods
and only on such occasions do they lift up
their voices
The shout of the boofhlaci, has almost